As part of Palm Beach’s 100th-anniversary celebration, 42 leaders with longtime ties to the town accepted the honor of serving as “Centennial Ambassadors,” Centennial Commission Chairman Bill Bone said at a Nov.

1911-1921 A tea dance in the Cocoanut Grove In Gilded-Age Palm Beach, those enjoying a holiday in the sunshine at the dawn of the 20th century’s second decade change their clothes every few hours, a daily transition in which the apparel becomes increasingly more formal.

The Palm Beach Centennial Commission has planned a triple crown of weekend events at The Mar-a-Lago Club, The Breakers and the Flagler Museum to mark the 100th anniversary of the town’s incorporation on April 17, 1911.

Although modern-day Palm Beach dates to the 1870s as a pioneer community and had developed by 1894 into a winter resort for the nation’s wealthiest residents, it didn’t become an actual town until 1911: April 17 to be exact.

Ninety-seven years after his death, Henry Flagler is finally returning to Palm Beach in the form of a bronze statue that will greet people arriving on the island over the North End bridge that bears his name.